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so I've been putting together an unraid NAS at home and it wasn't sending me a daily email summary like I thought I had it programmed to do. So I asked google AI why my Unraid server mail wasn't going out via gmail. It spit back a very nice step by step procedure starting on my google account page, but none of the menu entries it listed were there. Now this is google AI, the application is chrome - a google app, and the target was gmail, a google service, and google AI didn't know squat about what was actually there. Boggles the mind. Now I do have to admit that it did give me the clue I needed. The bot mentioned the term 'application password', which sounded relevant to this non-artificial 'I', so when I put that term into the search box on the chrome account settings page, it took me to where I needed to go. I think this was another temporal awareness issue. I believe this is something that google has changed relatively recently (I had not had to go this route when I set up my previous NAS) and the bot threw up old info - probably because there were a lot of references to it out there, but it had no awareness it had been obsoleted. This seems to be a real stumbling block for the large language models.

isn't he trying to turn into a bum now?

It's always been my opinion that Avila knew what needed to be done - he knew where DD had let things atrophy. All the things he talked about were basically all the same things Harris talks about, but he wasn't that up to speed himself when he started, and he brought insufficient creativity and urgency to the task. But the one thing we never give Al any benefit of the doubt about is that you don't just start firing people willy-nilly in the Ilitch organization. Some of the inertia could have been coming from ownership unwilling to dump loyal employees abruptly. Now without doubt, he was a disaster at trades. No need to cut him any slack there.

My personal speculation has always been that Hinch was part of Tork's problems. Early in his career Hinch constantly talked about trying to get Tork to only swing at pitches he could drive, to the point where he had to go back to Toledo to recover some plate coverage. I won't hold that against Hinch because no philosophy can work for every hitter, but just to point out that nobody's going to bat 1000 with player development - it's a 'people' science, meaning to some some extent it isn't one at all.

It's *always* about privatization of profits and socialization of costs isn't it?

The Trills are already secretly among us.

maybe the most bizarre thing there is about baseball.

this is one of the differences between success and failure for the non LA/NYC market teams isn't it? Being right about which of your own prospects can be dealt because you've figured out which ones aren't going to make it before their prospect value has a chance to fail by failure? I think back in the day it became a by-word that you never traded for a pitching prospect from Atlanta because if they were giving them up, you could count on them not panning out. 🎓

actually it can because they throw away all the old stationery, reprint all the placards on the walls, all the printed and posted matter, etc. But the joke is that it's just as wasteful to switch back again once a change was complete..

change is hard! But just pointing out there are solutions, people just won't adopt them. The 'lead.a horse to water' analogy is one that applies here, to too many things in fact.

it appeared to be hot, he probably knew he was sweating, which is always a bad look on camera, and it was quite noisey, which may have distracting. The text was almost verbatim what he has already rehearsed multiple times locally, so it wasn't like he was having to think much about what he wanted to say, only getting it said. It may have seemed worse exactly because we have already heard him give the same pitch under better conditions.

Believe so. But Goldman is establishment - relatively old money, Yale. I thought he was great in the 1st impeachment. Have little idea what he's done since.

I would think as fans our position should be we don't care (at least very much!) how much of your money you spend, but don't give away future players!

I like to see to see a little more turnover, Usually in team sports, if you aren't upgrading you are getting passed. The Tigers are young enough they may still have some upgrade built in, but more is better.

Big plants with big cooling towers can be a problem in agricultural regions because they concentrate the phosphates, nitrates, etc, that tend to be in water in agricultural areas and then slam them back to the local waste water treatment system (and that's assuming they are in complete control of their toxics). If the community was using recovered water or they discharge into rivers upstream of other communties' intakes, that can put water systems way out of compliance for safe drinking water or even safe irrigation use. They need to forced to put in their own tail water treatment systems and not give them permits to discharge into low capacity rural municipal systems with little or no review/oversight. This is one place where Big Brother is almost never big enough.

If Rubio hadn't said anything and it was just reported, I would have taken it as a swipe at Microsoft. 😄

these are the drip-drip-drips that, if they have any sense, should start separating the Congressional GOP from Trump. But that 1st part might well be too big a hurdle.

yeah -too late for AD to be what the Pistons need. AD has only played 70 games once in the last 9 seasons. All that's needed to know.

I do think that if there is anyone Yzerman will give his best shot to land it would be Hughes - the local connection, the Larkin connection, still young enough to play a long time, that fact you have young playmaking Dman to give back as at least a piece of the trade. It all lines up about as well as it can.

If they spend significantly on effective pitching on multi-year deals, that's a form of 'all in' that would not be to their detriment in 27+ because with Melton likely to be in Detroit in '26 there isn't much within a year or two in the system.

Multiple progressives seem likely to jump in and split the vote, and by the 26 election Gaza may have faded as an issue, which is what the left has been hammering Goldman on.

What if all the luxury tax money collected by the league could only be used by teams below the tax limit to sign their own free agents?

It could be fixed - and it's probably the thing I most wished could be fixed, but IMHO the players have a lot of counterproductive understandings of what is in their own best interests, so it's not going to happen. Probably time for Clark to make his exit too.

they surely couldn't do any worse.

Also - I think if Skubal had an inclination to sign a deal in DET at less than the max, he'd have parted company with Boras. He doesn't need Boras or his fee if was interested in staying here and he could probably find agency to do that for less money than he is going to pay Boras.